Every year in late summer, 60,000 free spirits gather in the middle of the desert, in Nevada, for the Burning Man festival. An ephemeral city appears, where art, solidarity and independence reign. A week later, this euphoria disappears into ashes.

A Miniature Journey to the Black Rock Desert, Home to Burning Man. A whimsical time-lapse film about the Art, People, Mutant Vehicles and Playa that makes Burning Man such a unique place on this tiny planet in our tiny solar system in our tiny galaxy in our tiny universe.

sabato 29 giugno 2013

Upon its premiere in 1999, Ghostcatching was described as having made complementary what had before been diametric: the combination of technology and humanity. The 7-minute work was created using pioneering motion-capture techniques, and Mr. Jones was filmed in a seamless succession of roughly forty different choreographic sequences. In their final rendered form, the bodies for Ghostcatching fall between a scribble and an x-ray, with line and density providing a visual suggestion of rhythm and character, while the numerous facets of Mr. Jones’s distinct artistic personality shine through.

Yuri Kozyrev (among the photographers of NOOR photo agency) photographed the Yamal Peninsula, one of the world's largest wildernesses where the indigenous Nenets people have migrated across for the past 1000 years. It is here that traditional large-scale nomadic reindeer husbandry is preserved. The Yamal Peninsula also holds Russia's biggest natural gas reserves. The Nenets have a shamanistic and animistic belief system which foments respect for the land and its resources.